Posted by dorayme on 09/28/07 00:01

In article <slrnffoa09.f28.spamspam@bowser.marioworld>,
Ben C <spamspam@spam.eggs> wrote:

> On 2007-09-23, dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> > I notice that the normally well standarded www.htmldog.com does
> > not display well in Safari 2 on a Mac. E.g.
> >
> > http://www.htmldog.com/guides/htmlbeginner/lists/
> >
> > does not wrap properly (as in FF) and needs a fair bit of
> > horizontal scrolling.
>
> They're relying on some rather quirky behaviour of Firefox there. Opera
> does the same sort of thing as Konqueror on that page.
>
> The container (div#content) is position: absolute and auto (i.e.
> shrink-to-fit) width. The important question here is ...

Interesting analysis, strikes me that there would have to be
simpler ways of laying out the pages affected (more pages than I
thought now that I look over the website and all fitting your
remarks about the pre). Perhaps in the preparations of their
<pre>s, they could have ensured a set narrower width to the text?
Stil, in FF it does work nicely. Must remember to (disgracefully
have to) tell people to view this site in FF... <g>

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dorayme

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